A Burkina Faso soldier and six “terrorist” insurgents were killed in clashes that broke out in the town of Djibo on Sunday morning, the army chief said in a statement.
“A gendarmerie unit and a reconnaissance mission team were ambushed. Sadly a soldier was killed during the attack,” the military statement said.
The two units managed “to neutralise six terrorists,” it added.
Army chief Moise Miningou, in the same statement, said five other troops were killed on Thursday also in the north.
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